| Quote 19 | I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to f... |
| Quote 21 | If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of cr... |
| Quote 32 | If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. |
| Quote 36 | I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. |
| Quote 78 | Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time. |
| Quote 88 | If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No." |
| Quote 126 | Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. |
| Quote 132 | Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. |
| Quote 244 | I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. |
| Quote 364 | I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. |
| Quote 440 | I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. |
| Quote 468 | God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. |
| Quote 612 | The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs. |
| Quote 622 | You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic. |
| Quote 1094 | Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. |
| Quote 1371 | I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spi... |
| Quote 1397 | If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the N... |
| Quote 1507 | I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. |
| Quote 1755 | Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. |
| Quote 1764 | Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "... |
| Quote 1801 | Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. |
| Quote 1848 | Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious. |
| Quote 2072 | I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. |
| Quote 2823 | He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that ther... |
| Quote 2876 | Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. |
| Quote 3212 | Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. |
| Quote 3567 | Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of bli... |
| Quote 3810 | Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. |
| Quote 4104 | Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. |
| Quote 4509 | Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! |
| Quote 5844 | The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. |
| Quote 6105 | It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physic... |
| Quote 7588 | You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. |
| Quote 7608 | Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological bu... |
| Quote 7630 | In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic. |
| Quote 7780 | I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. |
| Quote 7994 | Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. |
| Quote 8045 | This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; th... |
| Quote 8303 | There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. |
| Quote 8492 | If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his so... |
| Quote 8602 | Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. |
| Quote 8618 | Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. |
| Quote 8909 | We are punished by our sins, not for them.
- Elbert Hubbard |
| Quote 8953 | Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? |
| Quote 9029 | Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of ... |
| Quote 9050 | Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. |
| Quote 9055 | Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls. |
| Quote 9170 | The Bible is literature, not dogma.
- George Santayana |
| Quote 9342 | More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. |
| Quote 9807 | Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone. |
| Quote 9927 | You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. |
| Quote 10033 | People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like b... |
| Quote 10414 | The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. |
| Quote 10543 | The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. |
| Quote 10658 | The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. |
| Quote 10871 | The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence. |
| Quote 11002 | There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease ... |
| Quote 11005 | Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade the... |
| Quote 11113 | One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. |
| Quote 11698 | When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. |
| Quote 11728 | It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow ... |
| Quote 11802 | It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. |
| Quote 11830 | We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beauti... |
| Quote 11843 | No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. |
| Quote 12785 | When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we ... |
| Quote 12839 | Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. |
| Quote 12847 | We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. |
| Quote 13115 | This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians. |
| Quote 13834 | Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. |
| Quote 13929 | The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being. |